Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with specially equipped Avro Lancasters to destroy the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley. Date: May 16, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 16 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. Date: May 16, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 16 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). Date: May 15, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 15 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland. Date: May 14, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 14 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia. Date: May 13, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 13 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans. Date: April 30, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 30 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden. Date: April 26, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 26 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. Date: April 19, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 19 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. Date: April 18, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 18 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19. Date: April 16, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 16 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)